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    England's tour of India (Nov '16/Feb '17)

    Nice to have India worried enough that the ball boys are being told to slow down though. :D
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    England's tour of India (Nov '16/Feb '17)

    I think our major problem seems to be that Ansari isn't a very good bowler. It's great to see Hameed coming in and doing well, just a shame that the selectors don't have that much faith in the spinners that have done well domestically.
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    England's tour of Bangladesh

    Well Played Bangladesh. I haven't seen much of the Tests, but our issue seems to be that we can't compete with the spin bowlers we have. At least in previous years we had Swann and Panesar for Tests like this. Ali is a decent Test bowler and is almost our best by default. Ansari, Batty and...
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    English Domestic Cricket

    So it turns out James Hildreth scored a Ton on a broken ankle yesterday. Incredible stuff. Looks like being an exciting climax to the season.
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    England Team Discussion

    It's insane that you've got Leach and Rayner both potentially on the verge of bowling their sides to a County Championship and yet we've picked a bang average spinner who is well past his prime. I just don't get it. Then you've got Buttler who's played one First Class match in the last year and...
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    England Team Discussion

    Well they've obviously both been cleared as safe, so Morgan is basing his opinion on the history in Bangladesh, so surely that should apply to everywhere. I understand him not wanting to go, but I think his judgement could be easily clouded. Another 5-for for Jack Leach today, against Yorkshire...
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    England Team Discussion

    I've got nothing against Morgan and Hales backing out, but Morgan looks a bit silly when he cites the attacks in India as living in fear, yet he heads back there every year. I just hope Duckett makes at least one of the squads and that they pick Jack Leach as a spinner. He's been brilliant for...
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    England Team Discussion

    I said at the start of the summer that Duckett looked a good option to open the batting in Tests, but he's knocking that door down for ODIs too. Insane scores in that Lions series. Good to see Wood back and bowling too.
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    Pakistan Tour of England and Ireland - July/September 2016

    He means that they (England) want to be the ones celebrating next time. It's Media Training 101. Nothing more or less too it. They literally say it every time they lose. I doubt he really cares about the actual celebration. Which we all thought was pretty cool anyway. :thumbs
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    England Team Discussion

    I see Root has been confirmed at Number 3. Be interesting to see how he gets on if Pakistan can get one of the openers early, which you'd expect to happen a few times with their pace bowlers. I'm not against Ballance coming back in, as I always expected it at some stage, just thought they'd give...
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    Pakistan Tour of England and Ireland - July/September 2016

    What happened to Hammad Azam? Sounds like a properly good game at Taunton. Hildrteth getting runs is no surprise, although I hear Amir is looking very good. Didn't stop Trescothick taking a ton off him today though. I think the Pakistan team have left being very popular. Were great with local...
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    Cricketing Queries

    It's a huge pain in local club cricket. You get holes with wrong sizes for the stumps and all sorts. Then you always seem to find some that are a bit too close together to fit the bails on perfectly. I used to find sometimes that you'd have one stump being quite loose in the ground, but the...
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    England Team Discussion

    Hopefully it'll be Borthwick next.
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    Sri Lanka tour of England - 2016

    I can understand that if we're going well and you want someone to take a risk to keep the rate up in the Powerplay, because Buttler likes to start slowly. I just think in games like the last one, we were in trouble and needed someone just to steady the ship. Something that he's naturally quite...
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    Sri Lanka tour of England - 2016

    Great game of cricket. Buttler's innings is becoming more common, must be gutting for him that when another batsman comes in, he gets shunted down the order. Woakes was good too. Probably needs to learn a bit more about hitting boundaries at the end, but he'll get that with experience. He was...
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    England Team Discussion

    He definitely had a run of poor scores when he last played, which is is why he was dropped. But if he did play he'd need to bat in the top 3 and he's not better than Root or Hales and Roy has deserved a go. You need to realise that there is a difference between T20 Internationals, where the best...
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    English Domestic Cricket

    It's a brilliant effort from D/L to keep on surprising us. Somerset v Essex. Somerset started their innings as a 47 over game, got rained off after 3 overs, then turned into a 29 over game. So fair enough, we might get a couple extra runs, if anything, right? Wrong. Essex are chasing 2 less than...
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    England Team Discussion

    I just think that there are hardly ever any days where everybody is going to be on their game. I don't think we need another batsman in there, because the guys we've got would be batting too low else. Woakes is starting to look good, so putting him down to 9, would just drain him of confidence...
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    England Team Discussion

    Personally, I hope we go aggressive for the Pakistan series. If Stokes is fit, we should just bring him straight in, in place of Compton. Stokes, Bairstow, Ali and Woakes isn't so bad at 5-8 for me, plus it would mean that we can keep 3 specialist seamers. I think that's a good idea personally...
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    Sri Lanka tour of England - 2016

    Good to see Woakes with a wicket. He bowled so well yesterday and deserved at least one after the Bairstow shocker.
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